SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Underconsumption, Overproduction
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The historical materialist approach to the women"s movement. Women"s liberation did not create the working woman; rather the working woman especially the working housewife created women"s liberation (harris 89). The domestic role of women following world war ii. The myth of the housewife as the universal condition of women. Economic incentives to have children: e. g. the baby bonus. Women in the labour force new forms of family life. Second income needed to support same standard of living. Read: kallen the anatomy of racism: key concepts, and hooks writing beyond race, ebook at york.